Were the Maghribi Ibāḍiyya contributors to West-African food production? An evaluation of the evidence

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Titre

Were the Maghribi Ibāḍiyya contributors to West-African food production? An evaluation of the evidence

Créateur

Perinbam, B.M. Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Date

1987

Dans

Maghreb Review Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Résumé

While acknowledging that sub-Saharan Africa was the site of early food production, this paper evaluates the evidence that the production of some North-African Mediterranean and Asian food crops was introduced into West Africa by the little known Ibāḍiyya -the oldest of all Islamic sects- from Maghribian communities, possibly between the 8th and 16th centuries. In answering the question “how” or “by what process” Maghrib foods were diffused across the Sahara, the paper argues for the existence of Ibāḍī diasporas before the 10th century when Trans-Saharan commercial networks first began to be organized, thereby fueling important changes in the desert’s political economy (Catalogue African Studies Centre, Leiden).

Langue

eng

volume

12

numéro

3-4

pages

66-77

Source

Fonds Martin Custers Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Ibadica Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Perinbam, B.M., “Were the Maghribi Ibāḍiyya contributors to West-African food production? An evaluation of the evidence”, 1987, bibliographie, consulté le 18 septembre 2024, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/7161